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HUG Ch 4 PT 2
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| The Chinese government allowed the social website Renren to operate because Renren has agreed to what? | political censorship mandated by the Chinese government |
| What happens to Renren users when they post a comment that is censored? | they receive a warning message |
| a map with a bull's eye surrounding the hearth of an innovation that describes how quickly the innovation will diffuse to areas around it | distance decay |
| this map explains how quickly innovations diffuse and refers to how interlinked 2 places are through transportaion and communication technologies | time-space compression |
| Why have major cities become much closer to each other? | modern technologies |
| Some places are now removed from interconnected places more than ever because of what? | lack of transportation and communication |
| All aspects of popular culture have a ___________ | hearth |
| Example: bands that begin on colleg campuses or in college towns and build from their base typically follow a path of building a hearth for their sound's diffusion first through _________________ and then through ___________________ | contagious diffusion, hierarchical diffusion |
| word of mouth diffusion is also called | contagious diffusion |
| HOw do corporations generate and produce popular culture? | by pushing innovations through communications infrastructures that links them to the rest of the world |
| Clayton Rosati found that MTV produces popular culture by ..... | opening globalized spaces to local culture, thereby globalizing the local |
| focus groups | the main demographic for innovations in popular culture |
| How does MTV and marketing companies create what is cool, what is new with popular culture? | They conduct focus groups, amass enormous databases of what teenagers do and like by sending "cool" hunters, by rummaging through teenagers bedrooms |
| How are trends spread from the hearth? | It is a triangle |
| Explain the triangle of how a hearth spreads. | At the top there is the innovator, then the trend setters who pick up on ideas that innnovators are doing, then there is an early adopter who takes what the trend setters are doing and they make it palatable for the masses, then the consumer runs with it |
| When does one aspect of popular culture change? | when it encounters a new locality and the people and local culture of that place |
| a process in which people start to produce an aspect of popular culture themselves in the context of their local culture and place and make it their own | reterritorialization |
| Which place represent the haerth of Hip Hop? | Compton, Los Angeles and the Bronx and Harlem in New York |
| Hip Hop began to diffuse to Europe and ___________ with local cultures, experiences, and places | mixed |
| As Hip Hop as grown and diffused artists have adddressed the major concerns of their local cultures in their ______________ | lyrics |
| The big 3 sports of the US | football, baseball, basketball |
| How did previously alternative sports become part of popular culture? | From films about surfing, skatebiarding, snowboarding, and ESPN's XGames |
| What do marketers use to sell berr, trucks, fast food? | sports |
| Once an extremem sport becomes popular, mainstream, and more commodified what happens? | People turn to a new extreme sport |
| What continues to spur the creation of extreme sports to rival the big 3? | Identity and the desire to remain outside of popular culture |
| What were the assimilation policies of governments designed for? | to disrupt and change indigenous,local cultures |
| If people live in an area that is not a hearth of popular culture, popular culture itself can feel like what? | assimilation |
| At the global scale which continents/countries exert the greatest influence on popular culture at present? | North America, western Europe, Japan, India, and South Korea |
| North America's influences are? | movies, television, sports, and fast food |
| Japan's influences are? | children's television, electronic games, new entertainment technologies |
| What are western Europe's influences? | fashion, art, philosophy |
| What are South Korea's influences? | dramas, popular music |
| What can cause consumers to lose track of the hearth of a good or idea? | rapid diffusion |
| waves of South Korean pop culture that move quickly through Asia and have resulted in significant growth in the South Korean entertainment and tourism industries? | Hallyu or Hanryu |
| What is South Korean pop music known as? | K-pop |
| When pop culture dsiplaces or replaces local culture it will usually be met with _____________ | resistance |
| How has France helped maintain its cultural industries | by using policies and funding to help promote its local culture |
| Why do people interpret individual cultural productions in different ways? | it depends on the cultural context in which they are viewed |
| the visible imprint of human activity on the landscape | cultural landscape |
| What does human imprint cover? | how people have changed and shaped the environment including buildings, signs, fences, statues people erect |
| cultural landscapes reflect what? | values, norms, and aesthetics of a culture |
| clustering | conglomeration |
| the loss of uniqueness of a place in the cultural landscape to the point that one place looks like the next | placelessness |
| HOw do cultural landscapes blend together? | architectural forms have diffused around the world, businesses and products have become widespread, through wholesale borrowing of landscape images (example Las Vegas) |
| What is one thing that has caused placelessness? | the building of skyscrapers |
| What is another way to see the convergence of cultural landsacpes? | signs of businesses |
| What is wholesale borrowing of idealized landscapes? | Example would be Las Vegas... Paris, Venice, etc in Las Vegas |
| What is another common wholesale borrowing of idealized landscapes (besides Las Vegas)? | the town center - main street USA |
| The concept that what happens at one scale is not independent of what happens at other scales | global-local continuum |
| the concept that the character of a place ultimately comes out of a multitude of dynamic interactions among local distictiveness and wider-scaled events and influences | glocalization |
| What can you study to learn about the social structures of local cultures? | local cultural landscapes such as houses, schools, cemeteries, or churches |
| the size and shape of a place's buildings, streets, and infrastructures | morphology |
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